The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will reconvene on Wednesday, 10/23 @ 11:30 in AH 1006. 

With Altieri behind us we will move on to a real philosopher: Husserl. We will be focusing on a lecture that introduces his later thought and explains the importance of his philosophical project to the future of “western civilization.” For our convienance, we will also read the JHU Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism‘s entry on Phenomenology.

Our post-Husserl agenda is to turn to Derrida. JD’s first book was on Husserl and in subsequent meetings will discuss the importance of Husserlian thought to the early Derrida and then, afterwards, read some of Derrida’s later work. For those who feel they want to take their knowledge of Derridan deconstruction beyond the routinized formula, Husserl will provide us with some sort of “ground” before we begin to undo it.